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Symbolic Values, Occupational Choice, and Economic Development

Corneo, Giacomo - 2007

Channeling human resources into the right occupations has historically been a key to economic prosperity. Occupational choices are not only driven by the material rewards associated with the various occupations, but also by the esteem that they confer. We propose a model of endogenous growth in...

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Geographical Origins and Economic Consequences of Language Structures

Galor, Oded - 2016

This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...

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Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas

Maloney, William F. - 2014

Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present income differences, and, in...

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Political Institutions and the Development of Telecommunications

Andonova, Veneta; Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2021

It has traditionally been argued that the development of telecommunications infrastructure is dependent on the quality of countries' political institutions. We estimate the effect of political institutions on the diffusion of three telecommunications services and find it to be much smaller in...

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Gone with the Storm : Rainfall Shocks and Household Well-Being in Guatemala

Baez, Javier - 2015

This paper investigates the causal consequences of Tropical Storm Agatha (2010) – the strongest tropical storm ever to strike Guatemala since rainfall records have been kept – on household welfare. The analysis reveals substantial negative effects, particularly among urban households. Per...

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World Bank Group support to public-private partnerships : lessons from experience in client countries, FY02-12

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The World Bank Legal Review, Volume 7 Financing and Implementing the Post-2015 Development Agenda : The Role of Law and Justice Systems

Fariello, Frank - 2016 - Online-Ausg.

The newly adopted post-2015 development agenda is centered on 17 sustainable development goals to be reached by 2030. This volume of the World Bank Legal Review looks at how law and justice systems can support the financing and implementation of these goals, including the role of the rule of law...

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The Primacy of Regime Survival : State Fragility and Economic Destruction in Zimbabwe

Simpson, Mark; Hawkins, Tony - 2018

1. Introduction -- 2. The Economics of State Fragility -- 3. Zimbabwe’s First Decade: Building the One-Party State and …This book analyses the past and ongoing decline of Zimbabwe under the rule of ZANU-PF, with a primary focus on the … period 1997 to the present. In contrast to much existing literature on post-independence Zimbabwe which has focused on the …

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Agriculture for economic development in Africa : evidence from Ethiopia

Till, Emelie Rohne - 2022

Part I -- 1 Introduction -- Aim and Contribution -- Case Study Approach -- References -- 2 The Role of Agriculture in Economic Development -- Agriculture for Development -- Agricultural Development -- References -- 3 The Role of the State in Agricultural Development -- Agricultural Policies --...

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Growth, Jobs and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa : No Country Left Behind

Mahmood, Moazam - 2022

1. The Narrative -- 2. The Quantum of Growth -- 3. Drivers of Growth in Sub Saharan Africa -- 4. Sectoral Growth in Sub Saharan Africa -- 5. Deindustrialisation in Sub Saharan Africa Explains Key Vulnerabilities in Growth and Productivity -- 6. The Labour Market in Sub Saharan Africa -- 7....

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